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Engineering & Informatics

Dr Stephen Nash B.A., B.A.I., M.Sc., Ph.D.

Contact Details

Title

Lecturer

Address

Civil EngineeringENG-1036New Engineering BuildingNUI Galway

Telephone:

+353 91 493738

Email:

ei.yawlagiun@hsan.nehpets

Biography:

Stephen graduated from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 1997 with a BAI in Civil Engineering and a BA in Maths. He spent two further years in TCD studying for a MSc by research which was funded by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency and focused on the development of a combined hydrodynamic and water quality model of Wexford Harbour. Upon graduating with an MSc in Civil Engineering in 1999, he moved to Galway to work as a Project Engineer with Aquafact International Services Ltd. In 2002, he left Aquafact to begin a PhD at National University of Ireland, Galway, the focus of which was the development of a dynamically nested tidal flow model. Later the same year, he took up a full-time lecturing post in the Department of Civil Engineering at NUI Galway and continued his PhD part-time, graduating in 2010.

Stephen's research area is the numerical and physical modelling of surface waters, including physical, chemical and biological processes, with particular interest in multi-scale modelling and tidal energy. He is a director of research in NUI Galway's Ryan Institute for Environmental, Marine and Energy Research and in the newly-established national centre for Marine Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI). He has been awarded >600,000 euro in national and EU research funding and has published over 30 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and conference proceedings.

Nash, S. (2007) A nested version of the combined hydrodynamic and water quality model, DIVAST Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing[ARAN Link] [Details]

Hartnett M, Nash S, Costello M and Johnson M (2000) The development of an efficient methodology for primary production assessment of Irish estuaries. Bulletin of the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association. Other Item [Details]

Employment

Employer: National University of Ireland Galway Position: Lecturer (above the bar)

Employer: National University of Ireland Galway Position: Lecturer (below the bar)

Employer: National University of Ireland Galway Position: Research Assistant

External Collaborators

International:Hydraulic Research Centre - Cardiff University, WalesInstitute of Environmental Hydraulics, University of Cantabria, SpainCentre for Marine Technology and Engineering, University of Lisbon, PortugalMarine & Environment Technology Centre, University of Lisbon, Portugal Ifremer, FranceEnvironmental Research Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland

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